Politics always change. Stories never do.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.